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  • Moonlight
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    Chronicles of Akasha

    Heads might be interested in an online graphic novel called Chronicles of Akasha, which begins with Kesey and Cassady and the Merry Pranksters' bus ride across America in 1964. It's got a lot of other stuff as well, like time travel and alternate realities. The main heroes are a veteran of the MK-ULTRA experiments in Menlo Park and a Native American medicine man.

    Check it out. Totally free with registration at our social-networking site dedicated to shifting consciousness...

    Albion M. Butters, Ph.D. Chief Creative Officer Big 'I' Group
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    The best Rock songs of all times by Julian Jerman
    Hi friends, Julian Jerman ( one of most impartial experts in contemporary music ) has published ( on its website jayinteractive.com ) the best Rock songs of all times in a list named "Classic-ALL-Ynspired" accessible from the link "Jay Radio player" in the main page. He selected there 10 songs for our Dead! His objectivity is exemplary considering that he admitted some sympathy for the Doors, Pink Floyd and Supertramp ( the songs included for these 3 bands are quantitatively lower than those of the Grateful Dead )
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    New series from Deadvids.com!
    Hey kind folks! I wanted to let you all know about a new series you might want to check out. Each month, Deadvids.com hosts a series/show called My First Grateful Dead Show. I host the show and each month a member guest hosts with me and we listen to their very first Grateful Dead show that they attended, and I interview them with 20 questions. During the interview, others that are present can ask additional questions of the guest host. We've been doing this show since late July 2010, and it's been catching on as people get to understand what it's about. We've found it really interesting and inspiring to hear each person's unique journey into this community and how it has impacted their lives. The interview takes place in the Deadvids.com chat room and anyone can sit in, member or not. You don't need to be a member to log in as a guest for that evenings show. Since the series began in July, it's always been an American/US-based deadhead that is my guest host, but next month we will have our first "international" guest host - a deadhead from overseas. I can't tell you who, or what show (we try to keep those under wraps until show time), but I would like to invite all of you, US-based and those living outside the US, to please join us! FYI, our guest host will have to be up into the wee hours of their morning to do this show, so perhaps you guys overseas can make a party of it and get together and listen/participate in the discussion that evening, make an all-nighter of it... If you cannot make it, we post an archive on Deadvids.com of all the past shows so folks can see whose show it was and the link to archive.org for that show. You are all most welcome! Please stop by the Deadvids chat room to fully participate in the interview discussion. For more information, please check out info on the next show here: http://gdvodcast.ning.com/events/my-first-grateful-dead-show-5 And info on past show archives here: http://gdvodcast.ning.com/forum/topics/my-first-grateful-dead-show-1 Hope to see you all on November 17th! Tell your friends... ;)
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    Deadhook has been around since the end of February, 2002 and is perhaps the friendliest site I've been to on the Web. I joined in May of '02 and I've had a lot of fun trading music, swapping stories, meeting up with folks at concerts, and learning about my fellow posters over the past 7 years. Please, wander by when you have a few minutes. It's a very nice community of folks and I think you'll enjoy it! You can access "The Dead Zone", which is Deadhook's most active forum by going to the URL listed here: http://www.deadhookforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=12 There are plenty of other forums to visit at Deadhook, like "Trees & Vines" and "Shakedown Street", where you can look for recordings of shows you need or gear you'd like to own. Or, hit the "Show Reviews" archive and read about concerts that you may not have know much about. The link for the reviews forum is here: http://www.deadhookforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14 There are plenty of other forums at Deadhook, so I'm sure you'll find something there that'll interest you. See you at Deadhook! "When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest!" - Bullwinkle Moose
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    itsw not strictly dead but we have a pan-european site.www.jambandseurope.com in german there are 2 sites: www.germanheads.de www.deadicated.de also from france, but in english, check out blog "the modern deadhead"
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    Just want to point out that we have a Grateful Dead News channel on Mattters. The full address is: http://grateful-dead.mattters.com/ This is our site. I've only been to a measly 9 shows or so [but I got plenty of olde bootleg LPs! Now you know how old I am :-)], but my wife/partner has been to several hundred - so hopefully we won't do anything too awfully stupid [I mean, more stupid than is normal fare for us, which, however, gives us really quite an amazing amount of lee way these days :-)]. If you feel motivated, stop by some time! Thanks, -Mike
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    getting Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie into theater
    PLEDGE!!!!! deadline is may 6th!!!!!!!!!to get wavys gravys movie off the ground and on the track to theaters around the country and eventually onto DVD. wavy gravy has the hog farm and has been helping inner city youth get their lives on track, totally a saint and his inspiring story should be shared with every american. make dreams come true. MAKE A PLEDGE!!!!!!!!!!!.. click on this link to the kickstarter site linked with amazon http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/176550745/saint-misbehavin-the-wavy… THANK YOU FOR CHECKING IT OUT. here is his facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saint-Misbehavin-The-Wavy-Gravy-Movie/555… and the movie website: http://www.rippleeffectfilms.com/wwwavy/index.php
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    I haven't updated this site in quite awhile. However, there are a number of archive items that some folks might be interested in - scans of Oregon Dead pictures & collectibles, newspaper clippings from way back when, etc. Some nostalgia in the sense that it's a holdover from the days of tape trading when we had to find trading partners through the ads in Golden Road and Relix. http://home.earthlink.net/~deadtraders
  • light into ashes
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    I'd like to mention a blog I've been working on, called the Grateful Dead Guide, which is a series of (mostly long) articles about the early pre-'75 Dead.... There's different kinds of articles, analyzing songs or performances. For instance, in the last three articles: The Dead's 1966 Songs - a discussion of all the songs played in 1966. Early Thematic Jams - or, "Where Did I Hear That Before?" - a listing of the themed jams the Dead played in the early years (this one's been quite popular) December 1972 - a review of the shows played in Dec '72. Older articles include a breakdown of the 1975 Studio Rehearsals, listings of First Times Played and guest appearances, very long essays on the beginnings of Dark Star and the early acoustic sets, show reviews, song histories, and various topics, all packed with links so you can listen while you read. I can't post very frequently, but I think you'll find this is one of the most informative sites around. Take a look! http://deadessays.blogspot.com
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    Hey friends! Come follow our own Spacewalker, on his writing journey of sharing his words with us. http://spacewalkersplace.blogspot.com/ Thanks! ********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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expectingrain.com is a Dylan inspired site that posts links daily to stories regarding Dylan and like minded musicians. There are often Dead related stories. Good site. www.expectingrain.com Yo Soy Boricua!
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Gotta put up the Rex Foundation, another way that this community can interact and affect positive change www.rexfoundation.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you want that groove that invokes dreams, close your eyes and focus on the dream not the groove
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Well, I'm sure a lot of you already have most of these but here's what I've found -Ratdog (and more) Live Cds and downloads - https://www.munckmusic.com/wms/ratdog/index.html Setbreak (minding the music) - http://www.setbreak.com/content/ David' Site - http://www.dgans.com/ GD Radio (streaming Grateful Dead and more) - http://www.gdradio.net/ The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/ Internet Archives (my bookmarks) - http://www.archive.org/bookmarks/B42 My Links to stuff about John Perry Barlow - http://del.icio.us/B42/JohnPerryBarlow and there are just so many more, I suppose that's what Google is for - http://tinyurl.com/358epr - Results - about 5,970,000 for Grateful Dead. "if you get confused..."
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--long time no type : )
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Anyone know what happened to this site? I think I was on the page less than two weeks ago but can't access it at all now.
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click megdradio.net - click me!
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for those here who aren't already on the Well, I'd like to invite you to a very cool on-line interview in which you can participate. Our own is interviewing Nicholas Meriwether, author of "All Graceful Instruments" on the Well's publicly available interview conference called Inkwell. go here: www.well.com and under Fresh Conversations, click on the Deadhead link to go check it out!
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thanks for the heads-up, iz! There are also boatloads of interesting interviews in the inkwell archives, often book authors, including David Dodd (of Annotated Lyrics, Oxford Reader and more), Bruce Sterling, Richie Unterberger and more.
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Google searching (does anyone Yahoo search anymore?!) for Grateful Dead displays the following: "about 6,180,000" However, did you know that using quotes narrows down what you're really looking for? Case in point -- about 1,550,000 for "grateful dead". (Much easier to look through a million and a half web pages than 6 million, isn't it?!) Anyway, I only bring this up 'cause some people don't actually know that if you type in Jerry Garcia you might get TONS of sites that have absolutely NOTHING to do with Captain Trips. But if you use quotes, my friends, you will magically be given better results!! Have a Grateful Dead!
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Hi all, I enjoyed 's tip on using quotes. As a librarian, I've learned a lot about searching Google. And one thing I've done is to construct a custom search engine (This Old Engine) for Grateful Dead topics. It's located at http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/thisoldengine.html Always happy to add new sites for the engine to peruse... --David
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tj crowley fried-days 6pm - midnite (e.s.t.) reliving the sounds (and vibes) of the 60's/70's with a splash of the 50's and todays sounds w e s s 90.3fm www.esu.edu/wess 'six strings...more or Lesh' official GD hour 10pm voted best radio broadcast n.e.Pa./n.w.NJ 11 years
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Deadhook.comfriendliest folks on the internet check it out and see
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ah yeah
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we, your humble mods, take a dim view of forum spamming. People are welcome here, including notorious spammers of other forums. They are not welcome to be disruptive, clutter topics with nonresponsive posts (except of course in the topics that are designated areas for nonresponsive posts, e.g. Spinnin'...), and bother folks. Spam here, and your account is toast. ME, the old and cranky mod
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HiI am ARCHURE, I do quick load (less than 1 min/song download time with dial up) DIGITAL MUSIC, and my music has greatly been influenced by the Dead, as well as other S.F. area musicians from the same era. I have met some members of the Grateful Dead, on various occasions, and had some good chats with them. I had a great chat with Jerry, about and Indian ritual I read about (in the college of marin library), where one pretends to die, then moves away for a number of years, and we chatted about this, Jerry thought this was very interesting. One may possibly come back to Haunt you. I had a great discussion with Phil regarding sound systems, with speakers in phase, and he might have said something about different band members getting different spots on the main graphic equalizer. I used to chat with Bill too. And several of us (including Bob Weir) were talking about recording vocals over instrumentals with headphones vercus listening to speakers, and what a difference that makes with pitch. I do like the Dead vocals, and I play quite a bit like Jerry, I know some Jerry like riffs,(and also do Led Zepelin and Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton and BB King, and Mike Bloomfield, and Elvin Bishop, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother, style of things too). I gave the Grateful Dead astrological advice to help them get their European Tour going (mid 70's) and when they got it together (they came back to thank me, it worked, I also helped Joe Montana, he too was impressed), I gave them a list of Good Days for the band before the tour. I HAVE LOTS OF GOOD ORIGINAL MUSIC (QUICK LOAD) and lots of GOOD ADVICE: Nutrition, Psychology (including sex), Web Advcie, and ASTROLOGICAL articles and Astro Forecast all at www.archure.net I got a Trademark on ARCHURE upon the advice of members of The Dead and members of Van Halen (who both had trademark issues with their names). I have good friends (old friends) who know members of The Dead more than I do. I am Grateful for their good vibes, and good music, and especially like their Improvisational Music. I too am into Improvisational Music at www.archure.net Music for the New Millennium by ARCHURE reg tmrk www.archure.net
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...on WNCW, whom I listen to every Wednesday night! I named my blog Daisy's Dead Air, after uncle Dave's Dead Air: http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/ I blog about whatever I want (politics, religion, whatever), and so far, have not even blogged about the Dead, but of course, they guide me in all things! :)
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http://zippyblogs.freeforums.org/portal.phpThe Grateful Dead was the greatest show on earth. From 1965 to 1995 the boys played one of popular culture’s most extraordinary epic adventures. Jerry Garcia once said "Maybe one day we can build something that can never be torn down". Huge caravans of people would travel to every show on the tour and you would see the same smiling faces at each show. It was a community and a family. You could arguably say that that community and family is still alive and in full force today even 12 years after Jerry Garcia's death. The Phil Zone was a place you could space out and listen to the music knowing everyone was there to do the same. A safe space to the left of the stage right below base player Phil Lesh. He just so happened to be my favorite member of the group so I spent much of my time there grooving to the music. Years later I think about that time with many smiles and memories. I still go to his solo shows and see the same people in the same spot. One day I was having one of these flashbacks and I decided to search for a simple phrase on the excite search engine. This was before google was widely popular. The year was 1999 and I was looking for tour dates and news. I found a web page called The Philzone which had what I was looking for. About three years later in 2002 I clicked on a link on that page that said community and found a discussion group. I was floored. It was the community I knew from the shows online discussing all manner of topics including my favorite band The Grateful Dead. Here it is 5 years later and Ive found at least 6 other discussion groups like it including my own. A couple of those pages are restrictive about what you can and cannot post there. I'm all about free speech so you can say whatever you feel the need to say on my site. We have a few rules but nothing that a mature adult cannot handle. Believe it or not deadheads are fun to hang out with. We welcome all manner of people to come hang with us and share ideas about music, love and life. Some times you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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http://www.setbreakmusic.com/drupal/GDtimeline.php Browse through 1,500 SBD & Matrix recordings and listen to any show. Filter by date/location or enter a song title in the full-text search box. Select a show to see the setlist and click on the "listen" icon to launch the music player. Most shows include song lyrics and performance-specific notes ("bobby on acoustic", "final version", "santana opened").
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Archive.org seems to be a legal source of dead recordings, no? I'm almost sure that they're okay to use, considering that they're backed by such a large non-profit, but I thought I should check here. Can anyone verify their legality? Thanks, and sorry if my post is inappropriate in this forum, I haven't seen one quite like this before. er.
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Downloads from arichive.org are OK as they are audience recordings. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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thanx my brother...the pictures were spectacular mark. stay safe and feel good! (~):}}
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Does any one have info on Billy's new band?I am going to NoHo Mass tonight to see them play. How ever I just of this last night. Are they playing other gigs? thanks M Oh yes I think that someone from the Allmans is in the band...
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in light of recent news events, please visit www.savetibet.org and pass the information along to as many folks as you can. in a nutshell, china is trying to destroy tibet's culture and religion and hide this fact from the rest of the world. tibet is a country and a culture that actually practices "peace, love and compassion". please help any way you can. thank you
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check out the site. send me an email if you want a free cd. peace, ben Jesus Loves You The Best! greateststoryevertold.org
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Hello everyone, I've just launched a new website to display live concert photos I've taken over the past 30+ years. Although the site is still under construction, with lots more photos to come, I thought I'd invite everyone here at Dead.net to take an early look around. There's several Grateful Dead shows from the '70's already uploaded, with photos from Red Rocks and Telluride in the '80s to come. There's also some Phil and Bob solo shows and lots more. To take a look, point your browser to http://www.billallenphotos.com. Enter the site, click on Gallery, then click on Music and scroll down to the Grateful Dead links. Enjoy!! Bill Allen Birmingham, AL
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The JerryGarcia.com website is currently offline. We'll be back at a future date. Copyright © 2008 Jerry Garcia Estate LLC
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You should check out the wonderful 3-D simulated shrine to Everything Dead in Second Life (secondlife.com) There is a sim called Darkstar, a loving tribute to the Grateful Dead that features an amphitheater complete with the "wall of sound", a parking lot with Further style buses, surrounding the Mars Hotel. There is also the beautiful Terrapin Station dancehall, modeled after the building from the Terrapin Station Limited Edition release. The island streams GDRadio 24/7 except during events such as special archival streams and live streaming performances by many of the musically talented residents. It is the most loving tribute to the legacy of the Grateful Dead I have ever seen. With Darkstar Deadheads have an opportunity to spend time in a virtual 3-D universe where the tour never ends and the lot never closes, where there is always another show, another drum circle, where the music TRULY never stops. Ever!
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I've just launched a new comedy story website http://www.dredly.com 2 Deadheads go on a quest to rid the world of evil and find comfortable footwear... But mainly to find comfortable footwear. On the way they take on psychotic moustaches, shape-shifting polar bears, Swiss killer gnomes, evil children’s entertainers and surveillance pigeons. And don't worry, this isn't a bit of clever corporate viral marketing, just me and my illustrator, so if you want trippy laughs, go to http://www.dredly.com Hope to see you there... And if you like it, tell everyone you know!! Please. Pigeons work in pairs!
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What's up guys, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about the inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues festival, this 11/22 at the historic Congress Theater, all benefiting the Saving Tiny Hearts Societies fight against the country's most common birth defect. www.cbgbfestival.com The first 10 folks that hit me up at michael.raspatello@gmail.com will get a pair of tickets mailed to them. We're excited for you to help us spread the word about this righteous endeavor Michael Raspatello